TAKE Dance Company and PULSE ComposersTAKE Dance Company and PULSE Composers Collaborate in FIVE POINTS Featuring Five World Premieres December 15, 2011

TAKE Dance, a leading contemporary dance company known for its blend of Eastern and Western sensibilities as well as its musical prowess, premieres five new works set to original music by the PULSE composers collective in a three-night performance series entitled FIVE POINTS. Representing five distinct points of view, each piece is by five different choreographers (Kristen Arnold, Jill Echo, Kile Hotchkiss, Milan Misko, and Takehiro Ueyama) set to new post-classical/jazz music by five different composers (Jamie Begian, Melissa Dunphy, Joseph C. Phillips, Jr., JC Sanford, and Joshua Shneider). Marked as one of the final performances to take place at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studios before its pending closure, FIVE POINTS showcases an omnivorous collection of “synaesthesia”, i.e. an exploration of the potential mash-up of the senses including touch, sound, vision, etc…

December 16th at 9pm
December 17th at 8pm

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